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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Quotations: On Tea

"Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really need a cup of tea? I even said as much to Miss Statham and she looked at me with a hurt, almost angry look, 'Do we need tea? she echoed. 'But Miss Lathbury...' She sounded puzzled and distressed and I began to realise that my question had struck at something deep and fundamental. It was the kind of question that starts a landslide in the mind. I mumbled something about making a joke and that of course one needed tea always, at every hour of the day or night."— Barbara Pym (Excellent Women)

Participating In...

150 Classics in 5 Years

My Classics Club List

The Trollope Project

Reading 50+ Works by and About Trollope in 10 years (2013-2023)

2013 Reading Goals

Goal #1: Read 36 booksGoal #2: 7 will be read-alongs, GoodReads group reads, and other collaborative reading projectsGoal #3: 5 books will be re-readsGoal #4: 12 books will be library/interlibrary loan booksGoal #5: 12 books will be books I ownGoal #6: Complete the TBR ChallengeGoal #7: 18 of the books must be written prior to 1950Goal #8: 5 books by or about Anthony Trollope

2013 Reads

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia StracheyThe Wars of the Roses by Alison WeirThe Law and the Lady by Wilkie CollinsHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK RowlingEating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer